Originally Posted by BstrucT

Hi and Welcome!

You can teach yourself, all it takes is some self- dicipline and a genuine interest in the language you are working with.

For example: I started with C and found it very difficult and after teaching myself for 6 months and I could only write some prehistoric console app that sort off works like a calculator wasn't exactly a good payoff! (But a payoff none the less.) I got a kick out of it and often suprised myself by how the program executed through the code. And that, DemonBuck, is they key for me. C tought me how to observe code and follow execution line for line.

I moved over to C# recently as it was recommended to me by fellow PFO programmers,if I wanted to get into windows pps, and haven't looked back.

You have to decide what programs you would like to write, and then go after the language required.
Starting with a simple language could be a good option, as I learned the hard way, but learning C has made me understand the fundamentals of programming a lot better though.

Oh, and you can't go wrong with this forum, it has hepled me alot.

Originally Posted by wannabe7

P.S. Would it be naive to say that it's possible to learn the whole C (or C++, C#) language in under two years?

Originally Posted by Grich

It would be possible. But for myself, after programming in C++ for four years, it still surprises me!